Sunday, May 25, 2008

All are invited to attend our 2nd ever monthly comics gathering -- a weekend picnic at Botanic Gardens. This is an informal meet-up for the Singapore comics community to get to know one another and share in our common passion.

Whether you are an amateur or professional artist or writer, or you are just interested in the creative process of doing comics, or you just want to meet like-minded comics lovers, we are hoping to bring everyone together.

Discussion topic:Don't miss a serious but fun presentation and analysis, "Bondage in comics: a necessary part of the comic book framework?" by Ric Rivas, former film school lecturer at Columbia College Hollywood and long-time avid comic book reader. More details in the next posting on this mailing list:http://groups.google.com/group/comics-creators-sg

Friday, May 16, 2008

Not really about local comics, but I found this hilarious. Check it out!

http://www.ep.tc/problems/

A side story: the latest issue is #25: Treat your M-16 rifle like a lady by the legendary Will Eisner. After quitting The Spirit in the 50s, WE drew for army manuals. I found some of his illustrations in some army training guide back in 91 when I was doing my NS. I ripped it out, wrote him a letter and sent it to him. He wrote back.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

I've been thinking about this for some time and I've talked to some of you guys about this. I think what we lack in the comics scene now is a sense of what people are reading. We have no sales figures/lists to fall back on. Is X-Men still the best selling comics (that's data from the 80s)? Are people still reading superheroes only? What are the hot titles? Nobody has a clear sense of that.

Sunday Life features a list of bestselling books in Singapore. We need something like that for comics.

Now, thanks to Kenny of Kinokuniya and his staff, we have a list of the Top 10 Bestselling Graphic Novels/Manga in Kinokuniya.

At least, we can say Singaporeans like superhero/sci-fi/horror comics, etc., which can be useful for aspiring writers and artists.

Anyone with contacts with other comic shops in Singapore or even shops like Comics Connection (for bestselling Chinese titles), do share. The more data we have, a clearer picture of our buying habits will be formed.

Cheers.

Kinokuniya Bookstores (S) P/L(for the week of 01/04/2008 to 30/04/2008)